2026-07-15T07:34:08+00:00
Shafaq News-
Tehran/ Washington
The United
States and Iran exchanged a new wave of strikes around the Gulf early
Wednesday, with US Central Command (CENTCOM) reporting fresh attacks on Iranian
military sites near the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard
Corps (IRGC) strikes on US facilities in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan
CENTCOM
completed a seven-hour round of strikes against Iran, targeting dozens of
military sites near the Strait of Hormuz and along Iran’s coast using precision
munitions against missile, drone, and naval capabilities
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) July 15, 2026
Iranian state
and semi-official agencies reported multiple US strikes on a mineral water
facility in Ilam province, an army barracks in Bampur, in Sistan and
Baluchestan province, a wheat storage silo in Howeiza, and a naval observation
tower used for fishermen rescue operations in Chabahar. The bombing also struck
Qeshm and Hengam islands and the port city of Bandar Abbas, in Hormozgan
province. Iranian air defenses were activated around the Bushehr nuclear power
plant to confront aerial targets.
The American
attack on the army barracks killed seven members of the Iranian army, according
to a statement
According to Iranian army, 7 Iranian military personnel were martyred last night in US attacks in the Iranian city of Iranshahr.Follow: https://t.co/GKZwI4ehqLpic.twitter.com/ncnA0DSslL
— Press TV 🔻 (@PressTV) July 15, 2026
Iran’s Health
Ministry said two women were killed and 260 people injured in the latest wave
The IRGC, in
turn, stated that “defense” operations against US attacks were continuing and
claimed it had struck facilities of the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet, based in
Bahrain, and destroyed a US military center at Abdullah Port (Mina Abdullah) in
Kuwait. Iran’s army separately targeted American equipment at the Al-Azraq base
in Jordan with drones for a second time
Kuwait’s army
said its air defenses were confronting hostile drone attacks, and Jordan’s army
intercepted and shot down three ballistic missiles that entered Jordanian
airspace from Iranian territory at dawn
The IRGC said
that the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed until US attacks stop, and the
region’s oil and gas exports were either available to all or to none, warning
that it could close additional export routes serving the United States and its
allies, hinting at Bab al-Mandeb, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of
Aden and the Indian Ocean
Kpler shipping
data indicated that nine of eleven vessels crossing the Strait of Hormuz on
Tuesday used the Iranian-designated route
US President
Donald Trump told Fox News he had ordered that Iran’s oil facilities not be
struck to avoid harming the global economy, adding that the United States could
target Iranian oil at a later stage if forced to
Iran’s
representative to the United Nations, in a letter to the organization, said
Washington had persistently refused to meet its obligations and had
deliberately undermined a memorandum of understanding between the two sides,
citing 42 documented violations
